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Man Who Saved Woman From Rape Accused of Being a Peeping Tom

Woman renting out home is robbed and sexually assaulted, rescuer suspected of being a Peeping Tom

November 3rd, living on the top floor of a residential apartment building of a residential community on Yayi Street in Guangzhou’s Tianhe District, Zeng Li made posted on the internet an advertisement to sublet her apartment, never thinking the prospective tenant would be a robber, who after hurting her and robbing her money would also try to rape her.

As luck would have it, the window the robber closed attracted the attention of neighboring Xiao Huang and afterwards the Tianhe Police appeared on the scene to arrest the robber.

Rescue

Neighbor climbed onto the roof and discovered the situation through an air vent

Witness Xiao Huang lives on the other side of the building #9. Xiao Huang said that around 8pm on that night, he went to look after the pigeons on the roof, but as he was on the stairs discovered that the open window of the apartment for rent where the incident occurred near the passageway was unexpectedly closed, “Normally it is always open, so this made me suspicious.”

Xiao Huang says he also heard the noise of things being overturned, so he decided to go see what was going on. He climbed over the 1.5 meter high wall in the middle of the passageway, climbed the stairs, and arrived at the roof garden. The light in the apartment where the incident occurred was on, and through the gap in the ventilation fan blades in the vent, Xiao Huang saw the situation in the apartment.

“She was tied to the bed, and there was blood all over the floor,” Xiao Huang said. He was startled, and did not call the police immediately but rather found Xiao Chen, another resident that lived on the other side of building #9.

Xiao Huang said that after urging Xiao Chen to call the police, he went downstairs to notify the residential community’s security. In order to prevent the man in black [the robber] from getting away, 3 security guards were placed at building #9. The police then arrived at the scene.

Suspicions

Rescuer suspected of being a Peeping Tom

After word of Xiao Huang reporting the robber to police spread, many netizens felt the matter of Xiao Huang calling the police being somewhat strange: First, why didn’t Xiao Huang immediately call the police when he discovered what was happening, but instead had someone else call the police; Second, why was he so sensitive to whether or not Zeng Li’s apartment window was open or closed, even climbing over a 1.5 meter tall wall to then climb up to the building roof to see the incident through an air vent? Was this a result of long-term habitual peeping?

According to a female in the residential community who isn’t willing to give her name but is familiar with the incident, she too is a resident of that building, as well as an employee of a nearby gym/health club. Several months ago, when Zeng Li went to the gym to apply for a membership card, the two of them met and got to know each other. Because they lived close to each other, Zeng Li also often goes over to her place to visit.

This female familiar with the incident told this reporter that Zeng Li told her not just once that she had been spied on by a male while bathing at night. Zeng Li also told this reporter that this person familiar with the incident has said before that she’s seen Xiao Huang at the air vent peeping on Zeng Li’s room. However, she says she can’t actually be sure Xiao Huang is the Peeping Tom.

With regards to being suspected of being a Peeping Tom, Xiao Huang denies it, even saying that being wrongly accused of being a Peeping Tom “is very hurtful”. As to to why he coincidentally encountered this case, he says it is in fact because his own work requires him to pay attention to details.

 

 

 

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In Jiangxi, 3 primary school girls hold hands and jump off a building to commit suicide because of too much homework

Yesterday [September 19th] around 2:10 in the afternoon, three primary schools girls were sent to The People’s Hospital of Lushan District in Jiujiang City, each and every one of them with pale faces, groaning. One of the girls was visibly bruised on the face, and her mouth was bleeding profusely. It is known now that these three girls, all about 10 years old, had failed suicide attempts to jump off a building before they were sent to the emergency room.

“If I’m dead, I won’t have to do homework anymore”

This reporter rushed to the 7th floor of the hospital’s inpatient department where he saw the three school girls under treatment.

10-year-old Huang Wanting told the reporter that she is in the fifth grade of Saiyang Center Primary School. Yesterday, she failed to finish her assigned homework and along with sixth-graders Wang Huan and Kong Huan, all did not go to school. The three of them stayed home and worked on their homework an entire day but still was unable to finish it. It was at this time that the slightly older Kong Huan raised the idea of ending their life by jumping off a building.

“I didn’t want to jump, but we all held hands and jumped off together”, said Wang Wanting, who was actually very afraid within, but was also afraid of being punished by her teacher to stand [in the corner or outside of the classroom as a punishment] for not having finished her homework.

According to Huang, the homework load this time was much more than usual, and if the math teacher (also the head teacher) finds their homework unfinished, the teacher will have them stand outside the classroom, or even outside the school, until the teacher calls them to come back in. Mindful of these, Huang Wanting and Wang Huan thought that Kong Huan was right about taking their own life by jumping off a building. In doing so, they won’t have to do homework any more. Hence, she [Huang] comforted her 7-year-old younger brother, then before went with her two friends to a residential building in their village, climbed to the second floor, and jumped off.

“They [the other two girls] originally wanted to have my brother jump together with us, but I know my family only has two children, we couldn’t both die”, said Huang Wanting.

Parents do not know the amount of homework assigned

 

Kong Huan’s injury is the most severe. The doctor said apart from a little Pneumothorax, she also had internal injuries and scapula fracture. When interviewed, she was extremely weak, not even able to make a sound. According to her grandmother, the child is ordinarily a little mischievous, but never imagined that she would jump off a building to commit suicide. When this reporter asked the child if she had a lot of homework, the grandma replied “it’s one homework booklet/notebook after another.”

School principal claims it is a one-time accident

After the incident, Zhou Qiliang, the principal of Saiyang Center Primary School rushed to the hospital, and even accepted this reporter’s interview.

Zhou Qiliang said, there were four students (including Huang Wanting’s younger brother) who didn’t go to school yesterday, and the relevant teachers also contacted these children’s parents that morning. In the afternoon, the school received a call from the Saiyang Police Station saying 3 schoolgirls were hospitalized after jumping off a residential house.

Zhou Qiliang said that he asked the teachers of those students and learned that the homework assigned this time is not actually considered much, just 3 hours of homework for several days of vacation. So why would the children want to jump off a building to commit suicide? Zho Qiliang said: “The police officers said that they climbed to the second floor via the bamboo beside the house and when they couldn’t find a way down, they chose to jump off”.

When asked if the teachers regularly pay visits to parents or communicate with the students, Zhou Qiliang didn’t answer directly, but only stressed that “this is an accident.”